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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog

By Levin & Perconti

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20 Common Nursing Home Problems and How to Resolve Them

Posted on March 25, 2009
Eric Carlson, an attorney with the national Senior Citizens Law Center has given advice on how to choose a nursing home. He first suggests that consumers be aggressive about questioning a prospective home about nursing home staff and staff training. If you are looking for a home with dementia care, he suggests looking for one that uses resident-centered care that offers a homelike environment and that works to meet a resident?s preference...

Official says elder abuse cases being investigated

Posted on March 24, 2009
An agency director takes issue with a recent report that claimed that the county stopped providing services to protect elder abuse. The report stated that the county was in violation of the Elder Abuse and Dependent Adult Civil Protective Act, which mandates local governments to provide elder abuse protection to seniors...

Nursing Home Scrambles after Signs of Sexual Assaults

Posted on March 24, 2009
A nursing home is claiming it took extraordinary measures to protect residents when it feared that three women with Alzheimer?s disease had been sexually assaulted last fall. A police investigation and medical exams of the three women were inconclusive...

Jury Awards $11 Million Verdict in Assisted Living Case

Posted on March 24, 2009
A jury awarded a landmark verdict of $11 million to the widow of a 36-year-old man who died after ingesting foreign objects while in the care of Liberty Manor Residency. The nursing home verdict awarded $2 million for the decedent, $5 million for the wife and $4 million in punitive damages...

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Mentally Ill Threaten Elderly in Nursing Homes

Posted on March 23, 2009
Over the past several years, nursing homes have seen an increase in young and middle-age people with mental illness. This increase in mentally ill patients has also increased the amount of elderly violence in nursing homes. One such incident at All Faith Pavilion in Chicago's South Side involved Ivory Jackson, a 77-year-old man with Alzheimer?s who was smashed in the face with a clock radio as he lay in his bed...

Illinois man alleged of elder abuse homicide

Posted on March 23, 2009
In a recent Daily Southtown article, the writer spoke with the son of an elderly man who is accused of elder abuse homicide. According to the medical examiner?s office, the neighbors found the elderly man bruised and severely dehydrated at his home duct-taped and tied with a dog leash to a chair...

US Senators Reintroduce Bill to Raise Standard of Care in Nursing Homes

Posted on March 23, 2009
Senators Chuck Grassley and Herb Kohl reintroduced the Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act, a bill that would give consumers more information about individual nursing homes and their track record of care, giving the government better tools for enforcing high quality standards...

Bill that would require long-term care workers to have background checks introduced

Posted on March 22, 2009
Two Senators last week introduced a bill to establish a nationwide system of background checks to prevent people with criminal histories from working in nursing homes. Thre bill is called the Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act, which expands on a three-year pilot program helped to prevent applicants with a criminal record from working in long-term care...

Nursing home fined $80,000 for resident?s death

Posted on March 22, 2009
A nursing home has been fined $80,000 after investigators determined a patient died because of the staff?s nursing home neglect. The staff failed to follow the resident?s dietary needs. The 54 year-old resident was supposed to be restricted to soft foods and died when he choked on a meatball...

Police Arrest Man for Elder Abuse

Posted on March 21, 2009
Police have arrested a man accused of stealing money from elderly women. The man was a traveling gypsy who preys upon elderly women. He would pull his truck over and set fire to the trunk. Then the scammers would allegedly convince the seniors that their cars needed immediate repair for their own safety...

Wrongful death lawsuit filed against nursing home

Posted on March 20, 2009
A wrongful death lawsuit was recently filed against a nursing home alleging nursing home neglect. The nursing home abuse lawsuit alleges that the care center violated the Nursing Home Act in that the resident suffered malnutrition, dehydration, decubitis ulcers, and sepsis prior to her death...

Financial abuse costs elders more than $2.6 billion annually

Posted on March 19, 2009
A recent MetLife Mature Market Institute study reported that elder financial abuse costs older Americans more than $2.6 billion per year. An especially disturbing result of the study found that the financial abuse is most often perpetrated by family members and caregivers of the elderly...

State investigates nursing home?s abuse of 78 year-old Alzheimer?s patient

Posted on March 18, 2009
A state agency has begun a nursing home abuse investigation into a rehabilitation center where a nurse injected Xanax into a 78 year-old Alzheimer?s patient. If the investigation finds severe nursing home abuse, the facility could face possible sanctions such as fines or license revocation...

Family of 87 year-old hit-and-run victim sues nursing home

Posted on March 18, 2009
The family of an 87 year-old woman who was struck and killed in a car accident plans to file a nursing home neglect lawsuit. The family alleges that the nursing home was negligent when their 87 year-old mother, who was in the beginning stages of dementia and had a history of running away, escaped from the nursing home...

Nursing home abuse lawsuit follows maggots in elderly woman?s bedsore

Posted on March 17, 2009
A nursing home neglect lawsuit has been filed against a nursing home, contending that the doctors found maggots crawling in a 95 year-old woman?s bedsore. In addition to this nursing home abuse lawsuit, the facility has faced multiple state and federal sanctions...

Nursing Home Cited For Failing to Report Suspected Abuse

Posted on March 15, 2009
According to the Chicago Tribune, a nursing home was recently fined $7,000 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for ?its indifference to complaints of sexual abuse against elderly residents.? The nursing home neglected to investigate an incident in which a male staff member was suspected of nursing home abuse and the nursing home also failed to report the suspected abuse to the state...

Nursing Home Fined After Negligence Results in Resident Death

Posted on March 13, 2009
An elderly nursing home resident died last year after choking on his lunch at a nursing home. He suffocated to death when the nursing home neglected to accommodate his dietary needs by changing his meal plan. Prior to the accident, a nursing home dietitian alerted other staff to his risk of choking because he was having a hard time chewing and swallowing thin liquid...

Cause of Illinois Man?s Death Disputed

Posted on March 12, 2009

Levin & Perconti File Nursing Home Negligence Suit for Family

Posted on March 12, 2009
A Lake Zurich, Illinois nursing home has been accused of negligence in a Levin & Perconti filed nursing home negligence suit. The suit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court. The elderly negligence suit was filed against Lexington Health Care Center of Lake Zurich on behalf of Edna Kneided, an 83-year-old woman, after she suffered a hip fracture at the nursing home...

Levin & Perconti File Family Suit Against Nursing Home

Posted on March 11, 2009
A McHenry, Illinois woman alleges that poor care at a Lake Zurich nursing home led to her mother?s shattered hip. Due to this elderly negligence, Levin & Perconti has filed a lawsuit against the facility. The nursing home negligence lawsuit was filed in Cook County Circuit Court against the Lexington Health Care Center of Lake Zurich, on behalf of Edna Kneidek who was 83...

90-Year-Old Illinois Man Found Duct-Taped to Chair

Posted on March 10, 2009
A 90-year-old Steger, Illinois man was allegedly found duct-taped taped to his living room chair. The man had wrongfuly died from dehydration and elder abuse. The police chief was alerted to the case after paramedics transported the senior to the local hospital...

Levin & Perconti File Lawsuit on Behalf of Nursing Home Negligence

Posted on March 10, 2009
Attorney Steven Levin of Levin & Perconti filed a nursing home negligence case in Cook County against Lexington Health Care Center of Lake Zurich in Lake Zurich, IL. The complaint was filed on behalf of Edna Kneidek for the injuries she suffered while she was a resident at the nursing home...

Nursing Home Firm Charged with $300 Million Fraud

Posted on March 09, 2009
Recent reports show that a national nursing home management firm, Sunwest Management as been accused of defrauding investors out of roughly $300 million in a Ponzi scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission leveled charges against the company, and its founder...

Sexual Abuse Allegations at Nursing Home

Posted on March 09, 2009
Sexual abuse allegations at an elderly home have family members concerned as hospital officials believe there are more victims. The suspect is a male nursing assistant who?s since been fired. The family members of the alleged victims claim that the nursing home tried to cover up the elderly abuse...

Man Charged in Death of Nursing Home Patient

Posted on March 09, 2009
Police have arrested a former health care worker in connection with the 2007 homicide of a patient with cerebral palsy. The case almost ended with no investigation into the victim?s wrongful death and his burial days later in pauper?s grave. The nursing home aide is charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of the disabled man...

Nursing Home Resident?s Advocates Vow to Stop Illinois Bill

Posted on March 09, 2009
Advocates for nursing home residents hope that they will be able to stop the progress of a bill in the Illinois General Assembly which is designed to allow state regulators to refund fines paid by nursing homes planning to use the money to improve care...

Nursing Home Faces Manslaughter Trial Date

Posted on March 08, 2009
A nursing home is facing manslaughter charges after a resident rolled her wheelchair unattended out of the front door of the nursing home and tumbled down a flight of stairs. The woman wrongfully died a short time later. The woman was not wearing a doctor-prescribed bracelet designed to set off an alarm and lock the doors if she got too close to the exit, pointing to elderly negligence...

Nursing Home Aide is charged with Death of a Patient

Posted on March 07, 2009
Authorities say a nursing home aide has surrendered on a homicide charge in the death of a patient. The certified nursing assistant turned himself in and was being held on the charge of criminally negligent homicide. The nursing home assistance was indicted in the 2007 death of the resident of the Nursing Home...

Caregiver gets two Years for Elderly Abuse

Posted on March 06, 2009

Steven Levin to Speak at NAELA Chapter Meeting

Posted on March 06, 2009

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